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President of the Arroyo Blanco Estates Property Owners’ Association, and Delaney and Kyra’s neighbor. A lawyer by trade, Jack Jardine is also openly racist; it is he who uses the phrase “the tortilla curtain.” Initially, Delaney finds Jack off-putting, not only due to his bigoted views, but also because of his manipulative, slightly sleazy personality. However, by the end of the novel, as Delaney descends further into his own state of bigoted paranoia, he comes to think of Jack Jardine as a friend.
Jack Jardine Quotes in The Tortilla Curtain
The The Tortilla Curtain quotes below are all either spoken by Jack Jardine or refer to Jack Jardine. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1, Chapter 7
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“You heard Jack Cherrystone speak to the issue, and nobody’s credentials can touch Jack’s as far as being liberal is concerned, but this society isn’t what it was—and it won’t be until we get control of the borders.”
The borders. Delaney took an involuntary step backwards, all those dark disordered faces rising up from the streetcorners and freeway onramps to mob his brain, all of them crying out their human wants through mouths full of rotten teeth. “That’s racist, Jack, and you know it.”
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Jack Jardine Quotes in The Tortilla Curtain
The The Tortilla Curtain quotes below are all either spoken by Jack Jardine or refer to Jack Jardine. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 1, Chapter 7
Quotes
“You heard Jack Cherrystone speak to the issue, and nobody’s credentials can touch Jack’s as far as being liberal is concerned, but this society isn’t what it was—and it won’t be until we get control of the borders.”
The borders. Delaney took an involuntary step backwards, all those dark disordered faces rising up from the streetcorners and freeway onramps to mob his brain, all of them crying out their human wants through mouths full of rotten teeth. “That’s racist, Jack, and you know it.”
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